The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-07-22

10 nearly distracted. Gov. Nance, q Ne.
arrived Friday.
Dispatches from Colorado ~ that TIE te
pcrts wired from Warrington recently that
eastern Colorado vas suffering from drouth-
and the hothesteAdefs wefe compelled TO leate
their clsims ia search Of food, d without
This section Of county has
lately had two, and sometimes three, heavy
rains each week, and crops and stock ere
doing well.
specialfrom C~heboygan, Mich, says Capt
Hallock, of the fishing tug Messenger, re-
ports that . terrible Scourge 10 raging on
Cockburn island, Lake Huron. The disease,
broke out last week, and from Friday to Tues
day ninedeaths have occurred aud the mortali
ty was seemingly on the increase. There e
no doctor on the island, and the people are
fleeing for their lives.
Judge Noonan, Of the court Of
criminal correction, at 1t. Louis
Friday discharged several saloenkeepers u.
rested for violating the Sunday law, on
the ground that the law is imperative. This
leaves the saloon question here IS It was be-
fore the repeal of the law Of 1861, aud in the
future Sunday saloons will be allowed to run
with open doors as before.
kilograms received from the railroad agents
OF all the stations from the eastern Illinois
line to the Mississippi river about the oat
crop, show that the acreage has generally in
creased from ten to twenty five pe. cent. A
few correspondents predict only half OF two
thirds Of a crop. Drought has done morsi
damage In the western than In the eastern
portion of the state.
At the opening Of the s'boodle" trial Friday
morning at Chicago Judge Jsmison gave his
decision in the matter Of Jurors Tate, Os.
trander and Parks, who 1t was charged were
friends of Ex-Warden Varnell, and were 60
prcdjudiccd in his favor that they could not
render a fair and impartial verdict. The
court decided that the evidence given by the
state was sufficient to warrant hrm In cxcus.
ing the three men.
I. j. Simpson, miller, Worthington, MIMI,
says in regard to the crop outlook:
Wheat in this section averages leo per cent.
in quality and double the acreage of last year.
Oats 100 per cent. and 33h per cent. Increase
in acreage. Barley 100 per cent. Flax IS per
cent. aud 1915 decrease in acreage. Corn 100
per cent. and average acreage. Hay 100 per
cent. The above will hold good for the eix
southwestern counties in Minnesota and the
six northwestern counties in Iowa.
The Alcazar theater at Hurley, Wisconsin
was destroyed by fire on Saturday night, the
flames communicating to adjoining buildings
and destroying 100000 worth Of property,
the greater portion of the business part of the
town being burned. 1n the theater, which
was q dance house, seventeen persons lost
their lives, either from jumping from upper
windows, or going down in the flames.
Tuesday last Louisa Zeils, at Nebrasks
City, Nebraska, ran two teeth of an old rake
into the left foot while playing, but the
wounds healed rapidly and Saturday she was
around, the wound being apparently we'll
Sunday morning She was found with her jaws
securely fastened together, and a physician
pronounced it a case Of lockjaw. The little
one fingered In great agony until Monday
when she died.
A Portland, Ore, special says a disastrous
Hood occurred Saturday at Thompson Falls
Idaho, from the breaking of a big dam or
Blossom lake. Many wagons and teams art
reported swept away, bridges destroyed, and
1t is feared, a number of lives lost. 1t is re-
ported the mining towns Of Mountain City
and York were nearly destroyed, but mail and
telt graph communication is cut of. 1t IL
feared a number of freight teams on the road
have been lost. The disaster is very seriout
to mining property.
Joseph Greenhut, the socialist, said Mon.
day in an interview that all hope of a new
trial for the condemned anarchists had been
abandoned. Funds were still being collected
FOR them, but the money, instead of being ap
piled to defray legal expenses, is to be used
for an entirely different purpose. Twenty O,
thirty persons are to be sent u shortly owe,
the entire state of Illinois to procure sigma
natures for a petition to Gov. Oglcsby, pray.
Ing that the penalty be committed. A stated
sum will be paid FOR each signature.
In the case of w. l.. Trenholm, comrtrolle,
of the currency, against the Fidelity nationa,
bank and its directors and officers at Cincin
natl, to forfeit the charter of the bank, a de
cree Was agreed upon by all parties Tuesday
which dismisses the action against the direc
tors and officers, but finds that the bank ha.
violated tine banking laws of the United
States in divers ways. The charter is there
fore declared forfeited. This action puts all
the assets of the late bank into the hands OF
Receiver Armstrong, and dissolves all at
tachments upon its property made since the
bank was seized by the government.
Il. F. Cowan, supreme keeper of record and
seals of Knights of Pythise, died at b.
home Thursday in St. Louis. A few
days ago he sustain cd a surgical operationfal
the removal OF a tumor. Several officers q
the supreme lodge If the world were an
nounced to take charge of the funeral, set fol
Saturday at sundown. Mr.. Cowan left q wife
and three children. Robert F. Cowan was
born in Stauntol, Me-, in 1880. He repre-.
scntcd Virginia in the secession convention
ard sat in the confederate congress. He was
Judge of the equity court in Kansas
City after the war. He was q Royal Arch
Mason and Odd Fellow of high standing.
Judge Goebel, of the probate court, at Gin.
%cinnati, has announced the result Of his in